Starting from this question, addressed to a heterogeneous audience in terms of age, professions and nationality, Claudia Losi has created Being There. Oltre il giardino (Being There. Beyond the Garden), the latest chapter in a 20-year research project focused on the interweaving of meaning, perception and memory that humans enact when they look at the world. The artist undertook a survey among a sample of about four hundred people – of different ages, backgrounds and geographical origins – through a call for participation and a series of seminars. The visual and narrative contributions collected over the course of several research and active engagement experiences (in various art and science institutions in Singapore, Israel, and Italy) were processed for the creation of a new operation, Oltre il giardino (Beyond the Garden).

The work created for the Rocca Roveresca in Senigallia, is a 18-meter-long jacquard fabric that presents a graphic elaboration of the contributions collected by the artist during all the different phases of the project. A multitude of heterogeneous reflections – different languages, different authors and different media – on the theme of the perception of a natural place have been translated by Losi into suggestions capable of creating a coherent and unprecedented narrative of his research experience.